Segments From This Episode

• Biden’s release from petroleum reserve probably won’t move gas prices

  by Andy Uhler

  

  They’re high because oil producers aren’t ramping up supply quickly enough.

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• Malls turn to luxury retailers

  by Matt Levin

  

  Retail centers in wealthy neighborhoods with high-end shops have survived, but middle- and lower-tier malls may struggle.

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• How the shipping container revolutionized freight and trade

  by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios

  

  Before the shipping container, goods were manually loaded into barrels and wooden creates.

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• Mexican border town residents resilient despite pandemic isolation

  by Annie Rosenthal

  

  When the border closed between Big Bend National Park and Boquillas in 2020, it separated residents from their main source of income.

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• Zoom is part of the business model for some pandemic-era entrepreneurs

  by Caroline Champlin

  

  Zoom’s earnings beat expectations, though some businesses are trying to move away from the platform. Others rely on it.

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• An independent movie theater eyes “momentum” heading into 2022

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “It really is beginning to look — dare I say it — a little normal,” said the executive director of Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre.

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